statue – Graeme Skinner https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress Artist, designer and photographer Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:45:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-site-icon-150x150.png statue – Graeme Skinner https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress 32 32 The Sleeping Place https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2011/06/the-sleeping-place/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2011/06/the-sleeping-place/#respond Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:45:32 +0000 http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=1427 We went to Penrith cemetery today for a wander around to look at the various forms of memorials, headstones, and grave markers. I took the camera along of course which to some may be a bit of an odd thing to do, but those weathered stones have some wonderful textures on them.

When we returned home I decided to look up the word ‘cemetery’ as I could not remember where it came from, trust the Greeks to come up with κοιμητήριον: sleeping place.

Sorry for the image overload, I took maybe one or two more photographs than I should have done –

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